Lunar Bovine - Jason Cobill's Weblog » Manitoba http://lunarbovine.com/blog Because sometimes I do things that are interesting. Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Airplane Ghost Stories http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2008/10/airplane-ghost-stories/ http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2008/10/airplane-ghost-stories/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:25:07 +0000 jcobill http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=59 After I’d left the Aviation Museum and had started heading back to my car, I caught a look through an open door at an engine being rebuilt in the workshop and wandered in to ask if I could get a couple of pictures of the work in progress. Sensing I was a bit of an aviation enthusiast, the welder I was talking to disappeared into the back for a bit and then came back and said “Hey… do you like airplanes? You have to see this!”

The Ghost Plane
The Ghost Plane of Charron Lake

This is a pretty exclusive picture (Thank you to the awesome volunteers in the workshop!) of part of the “Ghost Plane of Charron Lake“. Thought lost after sinking through shallow ice in a snowstorm in 1931, “The Ghost” sat at the bottom of Charron Lake (how appropriate!) until recently, when a WCAM exploration team managed to pin it down on sonar, parked at the bottom like an eerie skeleton.

Since raising the plane, they’ve decided to rebuild her and put her on display. They’ve got a ghost hanging on her fuselage to remind everyone helping of her 65 years in the abyss. She looks a bit of a mess right now, but I’m told a lot of the frame is in fantastic shape and she’s a great specimen, especially considering her history.

]]> http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2008/10/airplane-ghost-stories/feed/ 0 Lots of Updates! http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2008/09/lots-of-updates/ http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2008/09/lots-of-updates/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:15:47 +0000 jcobill http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=3 In a quirk of incredibly bad timing, my service provider accidentally blew up my blog, again, plunging you all into radio silence while huge important life-changing things happened to me. I could approach all of this stuff as individual posts later, but here’s at least the gist of what’s going on:

I’ve left MTS and am in the process of leaving Manitoba to head back east, with Natasha uprooting herself to come along! I’ve accepted a fantastic new position at Bitheads in Ottawa, doing design for video games and websites. We’re about 95% packed at this point, with the movers coming on the 12th to pick it all up.

We’re hitting the open road the same day to drive across Northern Ontario, which is something I’ve always wanted to do, so we’ve scheduled ourselves a little extra time to do some exploring while we’re out there. We’ll be in Ottawa sometime around the 15th, depending on weather and how many interesting rocks I want to pull over to take a picture of.  :) (Did you know there’s a giant amethyst mine in Thunder Bay?)

It’s both exciting and sad. The opportunity is fantastic and it makes a lot of sense for us to be in Ottawa as we start planning to have a family (no news there yet – don’t have a heart attack), but I’ve had so many crazy experiences here in Manitoba, and met so many awesome people, that it’s been hard to leave. I’ve really fallen in love with the place, and it’s starting to feel as much like “home” to me as anyplace else. I’ve spent nearly a third of my life here!

Now that my blog’s eaten a bunch of my old entries, I’ll have to figure out some way to reconstruct some of the articles before my memory of Manitoban summers starts to fade. Here comes an Ottawa autumn! We’re so excited to start over in Ontario!

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